Java Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	12	3	7
Rank change year-on-year	-9	+4	+3
Permanent jobs citing Java	15	28	23
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon	6.38%	37.33%	25.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category	62.50%	82.35%	56.10%
Number of salaries quoted	11	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£66,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£24,000	-	£67,500
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-8.47%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	-	£68,750
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South London median annual salary	£70,000	£82,500	£67,500
% change year-on-year	-15.15%	+22.22%	-12.90%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Croydon.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	24	34	41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon	10.21%	45.33%	45.05%
Number of salaries quoted	16	4	5
10^th Percentile	-	£37,875	£58,000
25^th Percentile	£24,000	£49,688	£66,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£63,750	£82,500
Median % change year-on-year	-1.96%	-22.73%	+43.48%
75^th Percentile	£68,125	£70,000	£83,750
90^th Percentile	£70,000	-	£85,100
South London median annual salary	£65,000	£55,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+18.18%	-15.38%	-

Java Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Java Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Java Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Croydon over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

Java Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 19 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South Croydon	-	7	£24,000	-	2
Java South London

Java Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing Java also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Croydon region with a requirement for Java.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Spring	46.7%	7
1	Test Automation	46.7%	7
3	Hibernate	40.0%	6
3	Microservices	40.0%	6
3	Spring Boot	40.0%	6
6	REST	33.3%	5
7	Web Services	26.7%	4
8	Agile	20.0%	3
8	Full-Stack Development	20.0%	3
8	SC Cleared	20.0%	3
8	Security Cleared	20.0%	3
12	ActiveMQ	13.3%	2
12	Amazon EC2	13.3%	2
12	Amazon ECS	13.3%	2
12	Amazon EKS	13.3%	2
12	Apache Camel	13.3%	2
12	API Design	13.3%	2
12	API Development	13.3%	2
12	AWS	13.3%	2
12	BDD	13.3%	2
12	CI/CD	13.3%	2
12	Containerisation	13.3%	2
12	DevOps	13.3%	2
12	Digital Transformation Programme	13.3%	2
12	Docker	13.3%	2
12	Dynatrace	13.3%	2
12	HTML	13.3%	2
12	Integration Testing	13.3%	2
12	JavaScript	13.3%	2
12	Jenkins	13.3%	2

Java Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	JavaScript	13.3%	2
1	Python	13.3%	2
1	Shell Script	13.3%	2